I was such a loner. My mom was worried. She felt I needed to connect with music. She hauled me to a record store and we couldn't leave until I left with an album. I chose "The Eagles Live". Not a bad choice in retrospect. However, the first thing I bought with my own cash was a Kay-Tel compilation disc. "The Rock Album". http://www.allmusic.com/album/rock-albu ... 0000028485

I just found it in mint condition at a second-hand store. Gee, I must hook the old LP player to the speakers, huh?

Simon and Garfunkle's Bridge Over Troubled Water. It was 1970 (I was 12) but my parents wouldn't buy it because of the lyrics to the song Cecilia. So my older sistet's boyfriend took my birthday/babysitting money and bought it for me. Not sure I enjoyed it; I was a nervous wreck they would find it.

Are Friends Electric by Tubeway Army, bought the single when I was visiting my cousins in London (in those pre-Ryanair/internet days, going from Dublin to London was a big deal!). As far as I know the record is still in the house somewhere....

I have no idea what the first thing I would have bought with money I earned was, but if allowance or birthday/Christmas money counts, probably my Beatles cassettes. I know I had (because I still have) the red and blue albums, but think I had a couple before that ... maybe Early Beatles and Meet The Beatles. Pretty sure Yellow Submarine was my first CD. I listened to my dad's Pink Floyd a lot and some of my mom's folk, but those Beatles ones were the first that I picked out on my own.